Thursday, June 19, 2008

One of the things we look forward to about Bonnaroo every year is speculating over who will be the next "break-out" band, someone most people have never heard of, that goes onto greater fame. With over 1,000,000 YouTube plays, 58,000 MySpace friends, and 6 paragraphs on Wikipedia, it can't really be said that no one's ever heard of Battles. Just maybe no one who's not online regularly. Anyway, I wasn't even there but it's impossible to ignore this kind of vibe:

Kudos to Lightning 100.com's Brian Waters for picking up.

And just in case the sound issues wreck it for you, check out this studio video -

p.s. - Helmet fans might recognize the guy at the yellow drumkit as John Stanier.

About Me

Former morning DJ on Lightning 100, an independent radio station in Nashville, WEQX, in Southern Vt/Albany NY, and WQBK-FM in Albany. My fascination with music started with Nancy Sinatra and Tom Lehrer (thanks, Dad) and continues with today's young upstarts and others who push the art forward, sometimes swimming upstream.